Joe Biden’s plan to manage the coronavirus outbreak included a promise to “fight climate change as a driver of health threats” by rejoining the Paris climate treaty on day one of his administration.
His proposal went on to state that “the link between climate change and health security is well-documented and will create a growing threat to Americans.”
The assessment that man-made global warming will lead to massive increases in mortality isn’t just stated by “Joe the walking gaffe machine,” but is asserted as fact by most agencies and groups that promote the so-called “consensus” opinion on catastrophic man-made global warming.
The reliably unreliable U. S. National Climate Assessment stated that “heat is already the leading cause of weather-related deaths in the United States.”
Climate extremists, like those that created the National Climate Assessment, predict that heatwaves and high temperatures related to global warming will kill increasingly more people worldwide.
As usual, the inconvenient facts are otherwise. If the merchants of doom were right, the warming over the last 150 years should be reflected in more heat-related deaths.
The inconvenient fact is that cold kills considerably more people than heat. It is, by far, the biggest weather-related killer worldwide. Warmer weather would mean far fewer premature temperature-related deaths.
A study of temperature-associated mortality found that cold-related deaths in the U.K. and Australia accounted for 61 and 33 deaths per million, respectively, while heat-related deaths were only three and two per million.
Cold kills more than 15 times as many people as heat in these countries.
In the largest study to date on deaths attributable to heat or cold, Gasparrini (2015) and a large team of collaborators from around the world examined more than 74 million deaths in 13 countries between 1985 and 2012.
Warm countries included Thailand and Brazil; temperate countries included Australia; cold countries included Sweden. The aim was to determine the number of deaths attributable to either heat or cold.
The study revealed that cold weather kills 20 times as many people as heat.
Worse, one in 15 deaths, from all causes, was attributable to cold. Only one death in 250 was attributable to heat. In every country examined, cold-related deaths greatly outnumbered deaths from heat.
By far the largest number of temperature-related deaths comes from moderate cold. Of course, moderate cold occurs far more frequently than extreme cold: but these figures show, and show clearly, that even a modest decrease in temperature is more likely to kill, while even a large increase is not.
According to research into summer heat-related deaths in the United States, these deaths declined dramatically in the last half of the 20th century and continue to fall.
Between 1979 and 2006, United States annual death rates from heat declined by 10%, while deaths from cold fell by a dramatic 37%.
In fact, extreme-weather deaths and death rates have decreased by 98% since the 1920s, notwithstanding the modest global warming since then.
The statistics tell us that temperature-related deaths are decreasing around the world and that the decline in cold-linked mortality is particularly dramatic. And that — except in the world of climate extremism — is a very good thing.
The facts starkly challenge the contention that warmer weather kills. The truth is that warmer weather has already cut temperature-related deaths, and will continue to do so, directly raising life expectancies around the world.
The facts and the data demonstrate exactly the opposite of what the prognosticators of climate doom predict.
If this important element of the alarmist campaign is so easily debunked by so many scientific studies, shouldn’t one also look with a critical eye at all the other hobgoblins of alarm?
At this point in time, we don’t know how badly humanity will be impacted by the COVID-19 virus, but a recent study gives some hope for a savior in warming weather as winter gives way to spring and summer.
According to the report, the family of coronaviruses “have been shown to display strong winter seasonality between December and April and are undetectable in summer months in temperate regions.”
We shall see if that holds true for our current contagion.
Portions of this commentary were taken from Gregory Wrightstone’s bestselling book Inconvenient Facts – The Science That Al Gore Doesn’t Want You To Know.
What a total moron and the Democrats are shooting themselves in the foot over this all Biden is a idiot a total idiot and oh yes a Liberal Democrat as well
Amen, Spurwing, Amen. It’s very clear that all intelligent persons will vote for Trump whether they like him or not. Everything biden is for is bad for us all. He MUST be soundly defeated. (Does the name George “one state” McGovern come to mind.
From the beginning the entire global warming/climate change movement has been completely made up to serve political agendas. This includes change temperature data to support the movement. Many aspects of this movement are assertions not based on reality such as hurricanes becoming more frequent and intense. The idea that climate change is adversely impacting health is totally made up out of thin air. As the article points, cold is a worse killer. It didn’t mention that is the climate change movement that is adversely impacting health as so many elderly can not adequately heat their homes due to the increased cost of power.
What the climate change movements wants to do may be very dangerous for epidemics. It wants to force people out of their cars into public transportation. Washington State was ground zero for the US for COVID-19, but now New York has had twice as many deaths. In Washington most people commute to work in cars. In New York City most use the subway. Crowded subway cars are an ideal environment for the spread of COVID-19. The epidemic risk of public transportation needs to be a major consideration as the radical lefts pushes us in that direction.
The best way to reduce deaths caused by either heat or cold is to keep energy prices low. In the UK there has been a spike in cold-related deaths as older people reduce their heating bills by turning down the heat. Certainly deaths in the southern US states have dropped significantly over the last century due to the proliferation of air conditioning units.
We need to just wait for this whole thing to blow over and when its all over we can look back at it as just another crisis we survived
Yes. Even here in Australia, cold is more deadly than heat.
Had I been born in NW Europe instead of sunny Australia, back in the day, I may not have survived childhood, given a personal medical susceptibility to cold winters.